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	Yale remembers Suzanne Jovin with community award (New Haven-WTNH) _ A posthumous honor for Yale Student Suzanne Jovin. She worked hard to strengthen ties between the university and the city of New Haven, and Thursday members of Jovin's family came from Germany to accept the "Elm and Ivy" award on her behalf. News Channel 8's Christina Hager reports. Last December Suzanne Jovin's murder horrified the Yale and New Haven communities. Someone found the 21-year-old student stabbed to death 17 times in the East Rock neighborhood not far from campus. Today Jovin was remembered not for the way she died but for the way she lived. It would have been a big moment in Suzanne Jovin's life - winning Yale's prestigious "Elm and Ivy" award for students who build bridges between the university and New Haven community. Instead, five months after the 21-year-old student's murder in New Haven, her father and sisters are here from their home country of Germany to accept the award for her. Richard Levin, Yale President: "We are here today, together, to remember this extraordinary young woman, whose brief and beautiful life encourages us to pursue together those things that bring peace and mutual upbuilding." Yale President Richard Levin also explained where the money from the memorial fund Jovin's family set up will go: $3,000 to the New Haven public library $3,000 to Dwight Elementary School, where some Yale students work as tutors $3,000 to Yale's Dwight Hall, the headquarters for all student volunteer programs The rest of the fund money goes to Best Buddies, the program matching volunteers with mentally disabled people. Jovin was the head of the Yale chapter. Mayor John DeStefano, D-New Haven: "The death affected us all. It was part of all of us. And really that's in a way the wonderful message of Suzanne's life." But as this went on inside Yale's Woolsey Hall, outside students had mixed feelings. Kelun Zhang, Student: "It's sort of a tragedy, and I don't feel as though it really brought New Haven and Yale together as much as it did bring the Yale community closer together." Kimber Tillemann-Dick, Student: "If they hadn't given the award to Suzanne Jovin it would have gone to a student who's doing a lot of work in the community who's alive and who would be here to appreciate it. " Jovin's father is meeting with New Haven police and other authorities while he's in town to discuss the investigation. Police have not made an arrest in the case. Today's News Page. WTNH Home Page. ©1999 WTNH/WTNH-DT A LIN station.

Yale remembers Suzanne Jovin with community award
(New Haven-WTNH) _ A posthumous honor for Yale Student Suzanne Jovin. She worked hard to strengthen ties between the university and the city of New Haven, and Thursday members of Jovin's family came from Germany to accept the "Elm and Ivy" award on her behalf.
News Channel 8's Christina Hager reports.

Last December Suzanne Jovin's murder horrified the Yale and New Haven communities. Someone found the 21-year-old student stabbed to death 17 times in the East Rock neighborhood not far from campus. Today Jovin was remembered not for the way she died but for the way she lived.

Jovin family accepts award It would have been a big moment in Suzanne Jovin's life - winning Yale's prestigious "Elm and Ivy" award for students who build bridges between the university and New Haven community. Instead, five months after the 21-year-old student's murder in New Haven, her father and sisters are here from their home country of Germany to accept the award for her.

Richard Levin, Yale President: "We are here today, together, to remember this extraordinary young woman, whose brief and beautiful life encourages us to pursue together those things that bring peace and mutual upbuilding."

Yale President Richard Levin also explained where the money from the memorial fund Jovin's family set up will go:

$3,000 to the New Haven public library
$3,000 to Dwight Elementary School, where some Yale students work as tutors
$3,000 to Yale's Dwight Hall, the headquarters for all student volunteer programs
The rest of the fund money goes to Best Buddies, the program matching volunteers with mentally disabled people. Jovin was the head of the Yale chapter.

Mayor John DeStefano, D-New Haven: "The death affected us all. It was part of all of us. And really that's in a way the wonderful message of Suzanne's life."

But as this went on inside Yale's Woolsey Hall, outside students had mixed feelings.

Kelun Zhang, Student: "It's sort of a tragedy, and I don't feel as though it really brought New Haven and Yale together as much as it did bring the Yale community closer together."

Kimber Tillemann-Dick, Student: "If they hadn't given the award to Suzanne Jovin it would have gone to a student who's doing a lot of work in the community who's alive and who would be here to appreciate it. "

Jovin's father is meeting with New Haven police and other authorities while he's in town to discuss the investigation. Police have not made an arrest in the case.

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